[PAPER2D] I Need Possibly Too Much Help

Development Character & Animation
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//Don’t feel like you have to answer all of these questions. Answer as many as you feel comfortable with.

Issue one (Probably the Easiest): I’ve already been programming in languages such as C++ since I was 12 (I’m 19 now). How do I open my blueprints in a code editor? I’ve always been bad at module-based programming languages such as scratch.

//Feel free to answer the rest of the questions in the module language if it feels easier to you.

Issue two: This one is dumb, but I still need help: How do I make my paper 2d char jump higher?

Issue three: It’s hard to ask what I really need help with, so, I’ll ask a similar question to what I really need: How do I put an item in the game that does damage over time when the player is overlapping it? I can only get it to do an abundance of damage at the beginning of the overlap. I know this is probably easy, but remember, I’m new to this engine and not very handy with module languages.

Issue four: Is there a way to crop my songs so the loop plays perfectly without a break?

Issue five: I need one of my home-recorded songs to play only until the player gets near songs that have an attentuation set on them. How do I make that happen?

Issue six: I want to make the backgrounds move horizontally with the player, and I eventually will want them to change to a different sprite at some point (maybe they could move just a little slower than the player?

Issue seven (Most likely the hardest): I need to coat most of my paper 2D map in darkness/shadows and I need my character’s sprite to change in the shadows (kind of like my char has a flashlight). And as you might guess, I need there to be a light node attached to this sprite.

This list will most likely get bigger in time.
The Greatest thank you for your help, heroes and heroines.

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For issue 2, open your sidescroller character blueprint and click on the character movement component in the top left. Then Jump z velocity will be able to be changed in the bottom left.

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For issue 3 on the main screen of the editor add a pain causing volume from the top left. Make sure the y coordinate is the same plane as your character in the world. Set the damage rate per second to be what you want. Then open your character blueprint and create a Health variable. Click on the event graph and create an Any Damage Event. Get your health, subtract the damage and then set the health with the result.

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Thank you so much [USER=“176830”]Pilot 88[/USER]

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[USER=“176830”]Pilot 88[/USER] That helps me tremendously with issue three as well, but before I can really use it, I need it to be in a different shape (a giant octopus monster). Also, is there any way to make one of those things give the player stamina and not exceed 100?

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This video by Zac Parrish shows how to do a healing volume. It starts at about 26:00.

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[USER=“176830”]Pilot 88[/USER] , I can create a healing volume like that, I was wondering how to make it give health over time then not exceed 100.

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I cannot figure out the delay, either. Currently it heals per frame.

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Here’s what I got so far, maybe you can figure out the delay?

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[USER=“176830”]Pilot 88[/USER] I couldn’t figure out the delay. Have any other ideas?